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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has
not altered her view that Luxembourg's Jean-Claude
Juncker should become president of the European
Commission, a government spokesman said on Friday.

"The German chancellor has very clearly said,
including in her recent speech to parliament, that she is in
favor of Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next European
Commission president and that she will work towards him getting
a majority," Steffen Seibert said, adding that "nothing has
changed" in this regard.